Anion-Binding Catalysis

6Silanediols, Phosphoramides, and Other OH‐ and NH‐Based H‐Donor Catalysts

Alexandria Leveille and Anita Mattson

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 60 Prescott Street., Worcester, MA, 01605, USA

6.1 Introduction

The expectations of an anion binding catalyst are high. The chemistry community prefers a readily accessible scaffold that can be rendered chiral with ease and affords excellent enantiomeric excesses at low loadings in a broad range of reactions. These demanding goals can be difficult to reach, in part due to the young age of the field of anion‐binding catalysts and the giant gaps in knowledge that have yet to be filled. For instance, anion binding catalysts can suffer from high catalyst loadings ...